Tag: HP Microserver

Moving my Windows Home Server 2011 to the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

Moving my Windows Home Server 2011 to the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

By: John Stutsman   Last July, 2012, I wrote about how I Installed Windows Home Server 2011 on a 60GB SSD in a HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and using that as my primary home server. More recently in March, 2013, I wrote about Updating my Windows Home Server 2011 installed on the HP ProLiant N40L [...]

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Performance Comparison of Windows Server 2012 Essentials on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

Performance Comparison of Windows Server 2012 Essentials on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

By: John Stutsman One of the things I wanted to do with the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer was compare it’s performance to its predecessor HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer. In a previous writing I compared the rated performance of the CPU’s that showed the N54L scoring 43% higher than the N40L on benchmark tests accumulated [...]

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Performance Measurement of the HP ProLiant N40L and N54L G7 MicroServer and Other NAS Devices

Performance Measurement of the HP ProLiant N40L and N54L G7 MicroServer and Other NAS Devices

By: John Stutsman   We all want to know how our MicroServer’s and other Machines compare in performance and how this performance is impacted by different hardware, storage drives, OS’s, drive extender replacements, RAID configurations, etc. Dave, Chris, and I thought it would be useful to build a jumping off point (a Start Menu of [...]

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HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer — First Look

HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer — First Look

The HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer looks exactly like its predecessor HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer. I chose to wait on flashing the BIOS-MOD — electing instead to do some testing with the stock HP BIOS which, by-the-way, is the same as the stock BIOS ( #O41 July 29, 2011 – see Figure 10) that came [...]

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HP ProLiant MicroServer CPU Performance Index Comparisons

HP ProLiant MicroServer CPU Performance Index Comparisons

    On February 5, 2013, I collected the Average CPU Performance BenchMark numbers for the N36L, N40L, N54L, and other CPU’s from PassMark CPU BenchMarks maintained by PassMark Software based on CPU benchmark results for over 600,000 systems covering 1,200+ different types of CPU’s. Besides the 3 different CPU’s (the N36L, N40L, and N54L) [...]

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HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer Build and BIOS Modification Revisited

HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer Build and BIOS Modification Revisited

Early last year I purchased my first HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer (“MicroServer”) and wrote about some of the things I did to build-out my MicroServer after flashing the modified BIOS from BIOS-MODS. After building-out my second MicroServer that summer and the many things I’ve learned over the last year I felt it was time to [...]

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Storage Spaces Performance in Windows Server 2012 Essentials on a HP N40L ProLiant MicroServer

Storage Spaces Performance in Windows Server 2012 Essentials on a HP N40L ProLiant MicroServer

  After finishing up my test build for Windows Server 2012 Essentials (“S2012E”) in a HP N40L ProLiant MicroServer (“MicroServer”) I wanted to continue some of the testing I had started on Storage Spaces in Installing Windows Server 2012 Essentials on a HP N40L ProLiant MicroServer.   Contents: HP N40L ProLiant MicroServer Setting up a [...]

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Installing Windows Server 2012 Essentials on a HP N40L ProLiant MicroServer

Installing Windows Server 2012 Essentials on a HP N40L ProLiant MicroServer

  After listening to the many discussions and seeing several demonstrations about Windows Server 2012 Essentials (“S2012E”) at the 2nd Annual Home Server Show Meet-Up I decided it was time to get more serious by testing S2012E in a live environment with live data in a HP N40L ProLiant Microserver (“MicroServer”). Contents: HP N40L ProLiant [...]

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HP Microserver N40L Build and Bios Modification

HP Microserver N40L Build and Bios Modification

By Guest Blogger:  John V. Stutsman I recently completed setting up my new HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer that  I purchased at Newegg.com.  It was a special combo deal that included the MicroServer and a copy of Windows Home Server 2011. Ram Installation At this site, HP MicroServer Self Repair Videos there are repair videos from [...]

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The Home Server Show 171

The Home Server Show 171

Awesome show for you this week.  Patrick Kennedy from servethehome.com joins us to talk about networking gear, hard drives, motherboards, his site, and his gear.  It’s a hardware show for sure.  Patrick has a lot of knowledge in the area and we hit him with a ton of questions. There is also a ton of [...]

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